Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.

Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up," not what part of another you can capture and hold. The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

You give before you get.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

There's nothing worse than going out without contributing.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

You have endless energy only when you are working for the good of the whole - you have to stop working for your little selfish interests. That's the secret of it. In this world you are given as you give.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back

You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.